On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

myPod

Can you tell a lot about a person from the contents of her iPod? I'm not sure. It's not the same as looking at someone's cd collection. When you buy a cd you are making some level of commitment (albeit a $15.99 one) to an artist. Or at the very least you are making a statement that says "I am willing to take a $15.99 risk on you." Not so with the iPod, where the greatest risk you run is spending 99 cents on a song that doesn't have staying power. (That may not be the greatest risk, actually. Once you start downloading it can trigger repressed memories from the glory days of Napster, sending you on a long and very expensive bender. But I digress.)

The iPod also makes being fickle very easy. I find that from day to day the songs I'm zapping through and the songs I'm listening to are radically different. Maybe you could tell a lot about a person if you charted her iPod habits over a period of time. Regardless, here are some of the high-rotation songs on my iPod this week. Well, today anyway. What do you suppose they say about me?